ArticlePublic health action2023
Integrating TB screening into house-to-house polio vaccination campaigns.
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- Integrated surveillance of polio-negative acute flaccid paralysis cases for childhood tuberculosis: a novel GeneXpert-based screening approach in Rivers State, Nigeria.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Can we optimise the TB response amid funding constraints using evidence-based, cost-effective strategies.IJTLD open · 2026Article
- A structured approach to promote equity in spatial accessibility to TB services during private sector engagement.IJTLD open · 2026Article
- Co-creation of a gender responsive TB intervention in Nigeria: a researcher-led collaborative study.BMC health services research · 2025Article
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Abstract
settingIn July 2019, the Anambra State (south-east Nigeria) TB Control Programme implemented the integration of TB case-finding with the polio vaccination campaign with the support of the WHO.
objectiveTo improve TB case-finding from communities leveraging already existing polio structures.
designVaccination teams were trained to ask for symptoms of TB in each household and to document details of people presumed to have TB. Community TB workers subsequently tracked those identified for subsequent sample collection. We report the numbers detected, and the proportion of wards that reported people with TB. Regression analyses were used to estimate the relationship between ward characteristics and reporting. Odds ratios (ORs) with associated 95% confidence intervals (CIs) are also reported.
resultsOf 281 people with presumptive TB, 32 were diagnosed with TB; 21% (70/330) of wards identified at least one presumptive, while 5% (18/330) of the people were identified with TB. Peri-urban slums were most likely to identify presumptives (adjusted OR [aOR] 11.52, 95% CI 1.62-81.79), while Riverine areas were most likely to identify a person with TB (aOR 3.59, 95% CI 1.16-11.01).
conclusionIntegrating community TB case-finding into house-to-house vaccination campaigns can boost case detection. This approach proved effective in areas perennially underserved by routine healthcare services.
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